Toothed-wheel wire fence



.(No Model.)

J. STOLL.

Toothed Wheel WireFenoe.

No. 230,445. Patented July 27,1880.

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JACOB STOLL, OF FOUNTAIN CITY, WISCONSIN.

TOOTHED-WHEEL WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,445, dated July 27,1880.

Application filed March 6, 1880. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB SToLL, ofFountain City, in the county ofBuflalo and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Toothed-Wheel Wire Fences; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

My invention consists in combining with a fence-wire made with alternatetwisted and looped parts tlat toothed wheels located within andprotected at both faces by such loops, and supported within the loopsupon staples or bearings; and it further consistsin details moreparticularly hereinafter described.

Fence-wires, so far as I am aware, in which wheels are used have eitherhad such wheels pivoted or rivets fastened on one side of a flat stripof metal, or else made with a hollow,

journal integral therewith, and with its barbs bent into differentplanes, or with the wheels all strung loosely on a wire and revolving inplanes at right angles to such wire. v

Figure 1 is a plan showing a portion or section of a fence-wire with itsattached wheels made in accordance with my invention; Fig.

2, a portion of the looped and twisted wire before the wheel "has beenapplied thereto.

Fig. 3 illustrates one of the wheels, and Fig. 4 a staple for attachingthe same.

In myinvention I use metal wheels, A, (see Figs. 1 and 3,) having nojournal thereon, and having a number of radial points, I). These wheelsmay be cheaply and strongly made, and either cast or cut from sheetmetal of sufficient thickness, and may be of any desired diameter, andthe teeth of any desired number or length.

The wires are so twisted as to leave between any of the twisted portions0 c an untwisted part, d, (see Figs. 1 and 2,)formi'ng aloop long enoughto receive the wheel, and each wheel is supported and may revolve withinsuch loop upon any appropriate staple or axis, e, passing through itscentral opening and secured to the wires. Thus the wheels are protectedat each of their faces by that part of the loop which spans such face,and their points project about equally on opposite sides of the loop,and in a plane substantially that of the length of the fence; and Iprefer to have the loops, and consequently the wheels, in difierentplanes-as, for instance, at right angles to each other, or nearly so.

A simple and ready means for attaching the wheels, so that they may befree to revolve on their axes, is to double a short piece of wire (seef,Fig. 4) over the loop of the long wires g, pass its ends through thehole in the wheel, and then force the ends of this short wire closetogetherover the outside of the opposite part of the loop, as shown inFig. I; or along doubled wire may be in the same way passed around thefence-wire and through the wheel, and then by a proper tool be cut offand-forced close together by the same actio'n ofthe tool.

I prefer to have the wires g" bent or depressed inward, as shown at h,the better to hold in place the supports or axes on which the wheelsrevolve.

Instead of the pieces f any other equivalent means may be used tosupport the wheelsas, for instance, the two main wires 9g may cross eachother at the center of the loop, and such crossed parts pass through thehole in the wheel.

I claim-- 1. In combination with a fence-wire made with alternatetwisted and looped parts, as described, flat toothed wheels locatedwithin and protected at both sides by such loops, and supported withinsuch loops upon staples or axes.

2. The combination of. the wires 0 c d, toothed wheel A, and attaching-wire f,

as and for the purposes described.

JACOB sroLL.

- Witnesses:

R. B. N OM'MENSEN, CHRIST. FLORIN.

